New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 15, 1929, Page 1

By Associated Press News of the World ESTABLISHED 1870 PAONESSA INSISTS DEMOCRATIC BOARD FELL DOWN ON JoB Reiterates Stttemt Most of Its Members Should Resign Their Positions CONTRASTS OPERATIONS OF TOWN COMMITTEES Mayor, in Reply to Letter of Resent- ment, Hints at Refusal to Acoept Dictates of This Group of Party Leaders in Moulding Municipal Family—Says Time Has Come for Committeemen to “Step Aside,” Mayor Paonessa's reply to the democratic town committee’s letter of resentment against his post-elec- tion statement is a reiteration of his charge that its lack of efficient oper- tion caused the unsatisfactory show- jng of the party last Tuesday, and that most of its members should re- sign. In the longest statement ever is- sued from his office, the mayor quotes figures shuwing a comparison of the work done by the committees of both parties last Tuesday and in the preceding off-year election, which comparison, he claims, sets the democratic committee up in a decidedly bad light. Dr. Avitable is Target Dr. A. L. Avitable, sixth ward member and one of the three ap- pointed to draft the protest letter, is the target of a sharp shaft al though not mentioned by name. Re- plying to the statement that the mayor resides in East Hampton, Paonessa calls attention to his legal residence at 1504 Stanley street, and remarks that the sixth ward committeman who was on the spe- cial committee should have been in & position to caution against such a misstatement creeping into the let- ter, Criticism is also made of the committee for allowing candidates to go down to defeat for want of automobiles when a large balance remained in the treasury. The mayor elected to reply to the committee's letter by a statement to the press rather than by letter. He closes his sharp arraignment of the committee with a declaration:— “The committee’s letter expraseed willingness to step aside for ether: It wo‘!:ld seem that the time h Paotiessa’s Reply Mayor Paoriessa’s statement reads: “The democratic town commit- (Continued on Page 11.) TWO BADLY BURNED IN BLAZE ON SLoop Craft in Bridgeport Har- bor Baffles Firemen’s Efforts Bridgeport, April 15 #—Two men were burned and forced to jump overboard into the harbor and three others narrowly escaped with their lives when an explosion of gasoline sct fire to the 70-foot two masted fishing sloop “Mae” of New York when she was tied up at the dock of the Hitchcock Engine Co., off California street late last night and completely destroyed it. Cut adrift to prevent the flam~s from spreading to the dock and to several lurge oyster boats tied up at the Lewis Oyster Co., docks at the foot of Pembroke street, the boat with flames shooting high into the air drifted out isto the middle of the harbor beyond the reach of the cily firemen who were forced to stand helplessly by on the docks. The firemen managed to stay on board until the burning = sloop reached the row of spiles at the upper end of the south end freight | yards. Number five engine com- pany from Middle street was then dispatched to the scene and the fire- men were able tn get a stream of ‘water onto the burning bulk and gwt the fire und>r control. The boat is owned by A. B. An- derson of Brooklyn and he is sa‘d to have been the skipper in charge and one of the man able to get off the craft before the rapidly spread- ing flames trapped hime Willlam Houlihan, 30, of 400 Third street, Brooklyn, N. Y., one of the members of the crew was en- gulfed in flames. With his clothing ablaze he jumped over the side of the boat into .ile water. His har was burned off and he suffered first degree burns of the face, left arm, left leg and both feet. Patrick Fitzgerald, 27, of 428 ‘Thirteenth stre=t, Brooklyn, N. Y., was also envelopcd in flames and jumped into the water to save his life. He sufferc.] first degree burns of the back and .eit arm. Frank Smith, 28, of Boston Mass., was trapped by the fire and forced to jump overbioard but he was not burned. All three men were hauled out of the water by the skipper and ‘wo other members of the crew and wers taken to the home of Mrs. H. L. Usinger of 50 California street where they were given dry clothing and hot coffee. After first aid treatment by. Dr. Frank Turchik of the city am- bulance all three men were re moved to Bt. Vincent's hospital anf. fering from shock and exposure ir the water and from their burns. NEW BRITAIN HERAL NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, MONDAY, APRIL 15, 1929.—EIGHTEEN PAGES 16 LOTTERY LAW VIOLATORS FINED Pay Total ol Nearly $1,500— Must Stop Practice JALL SENTENCES THREATEN Mangan Pleads Nolo Contendere for Accused—Woods Aggressive for Convictions—First Offenders Pay 850, “Persistent violations of this law in the future will probably mean jail sentences,” Judge Stanley J. Traceski said in police court today, as he imposed fines and costs amounting to $1,413.52 in 16 cases of violation of the lottery law, so- called. The law is on the books, he oObserved, and there was no course open to the court but to enforce it. 8even first offenders were fined $50 and costs each, as follows: Joseph Neubauer, 345 Arch street; Joseph Reney, 340 Main street; James Ono- rato, 56 West Main street; William Burns, 553 Main street; James Walsh, West Main street; Walter Rosenswelg, 65 Main street; Henry Johnson, 387 Main street, while the following, who have been convicted before, were fined $100 and costs each: D. J. Donahue, Railroad Arcade; George Peterson, 101 Arch street; Louis Volgi, 284 East Main street; George Hallaby of Middle- town; Otto Schmarr, 248 East .Jain street; Fred Holfelder, 462 Main street; Walter Donahue, 57 East Main street; P. C. Bridgett, 61 Church stree Alfred Vanasse, 13 Beaver street. In each case the costs were $10.22, Prosecuting Attorney J. G. Woods struck out against the lottery busi- ness after Judge W. F. Mangan had entered a plea of nolo contendere in each case. He said the prosecu- tions were brought under the statute of 1918, which provide a fine of not more than $300 or one year impris- onment or both, and the business has grown to such an extent in New (Continued on Page 16.) NICKEL PLATE ROAD EXPANSION PROGRAM Proposes to Control Wheel- ing and Lake Erie Lines ‘Washington, D. C., April 15 (®— Control of the Wheeling and Lake Erle and its subsidiary, the Lorain and West Virginia, is asked by the Nickel Plate railroad in a petition filed with the interstate commerce commission by the Nickel Plate to- day. Control is asked through own- ership of the majority of stock. Three other petitions accompa- nied the proposal, which is made with a view to ultimate unification. All the petitions bear on the pro- posed control. One petition asks the commission to vacate its order of March 11, re- quiring the divestment of the road's present holdings of Wheeling stock. Another petition seeks authority to Issue 67,553 shares of Nickel Plate common stock and the same amount of preferred. The proceeds to be applied toward the purchase of 198,662 Wheeling shares, which to- gether with the shares now held by the Nickel Plate would give the road an ownership of 53 per cent of the total Wheeling stock. The fourth petition asks leave to intervene in opposition to the Pitts- burgh & West Virginia Railway company's proposal to acquire con- trol of the Wheeling & Lake Eric. In arguing the advantage of the proposed control, the Nickel Plate’s petition declares that there exist im- portant and well-established routes involving the use of the lines of the Nickel Plate and the Wheeling, and that to a very large extent these routes are in competition with the single system hauls of the New York Central, the Pennsylvania and the Baltimore and Ohio. The petition declares that the Nickel Plate and Wheeling are com- plimentary and supplementary lincs and not substantially competitive, the Nickel Plate extending generaily east and west and the Wheeling north and south. CUSTOMS MEN AMBUSH SAILORS WITH LIQUOR Hide Aboard Fabre Liner and Sec Members of Crew Stow Away Contraband. New York, April 15 —A search- ing party of the customs patrol climbed up a baggage net to the deck of the kabre liner Sinaia early today, hid between the winches until three members of the crew had fin- ished stowing suspicious looking packages in the boatswain's locker. and then arrested the three men. The packages were found to contain 500 bottles of liquor valued at $3,- 500, Attention of the customs men was attracted by the activity aboard the Sinala as they were passing in the patrol boat and they remembered that early Saturday other customs agents had seized 500 bottles aboard the Providence, of the same line and it the same pier. The names of the three men ar ested today were not revealed. World Celebrities at Disarmament Conference Ty g sormany SCHACHT PUTS OFF GERMANY'S ANSWER Addresses Session of Reparations Committee on Allies’ Demands EXPERTS THEN ADJIOURN Creditor Nations' Delegates Decide to Postpone Action Until Tomor- row—Continue to Conceal Amount Which Berlin Must Pay. Paris, April 15 (®—Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, German spokesman, taced representatives of the creditors of his country today and apparently deferred temporarily a positive an- awer of yes or no to their bill for damages incurred In the World War. After a closed plenary session of the eperts committee on repara- tions lasting an hour and ten min- ates, during which Dr. Schacht had the floor a great part of the time, the experts adjourned until 11 a. m. tomorrow. The only actual decision arrived at was not to publish the figures contained in the allies’ bill at present. A wish of the creditor nation dele- gates to study their tigures and as- certain just why they arrived at the | was | totals contained in the bill, given as the official reason for th: adjournment. But since they wert known to have studicd the figurcs very thoroughly before arriving them it was presumed the Germar wanted—and obtained—more tme to study them. May Scale Down Figures This ume, it was believed, Dr. Schacht and his conferers might us at in an attempt by private conversa- | tions with the creditor nation dele gates to scale down the annuities | and total tigures still further. There was nothing today to indicate what these totals might be, but when they | were handed to Germany Iriday .A‘ between | present claims value of $10,000,000,000 and $12,000,000,000 and an eventual value of around $24,000,000,000 was understood. Some, taking note of the decision not to publish the allies’ figures, in- | terred from the situation that with the figures presented to Dr. Schacht Saturday as a tangible basis for work, the experts might begin anew an attempt to conciliate the German and allied positions, Further Delay Anticipated It was even assumed that Owen D. Young, who had a hand in scaling down the claims of the creditor na- tions to the point they have now reached, might today undertake to conciliate in some measure the man and allied viewpoints. Some b lieved this conciliation would tak longer than a single day and that at tomorrow’s plenary session a further adjournament would be taken, per- mitting the entire remainder of the week 1o be taken up in the private discussions of figures. There was much speculation among those outside today's session as to what patches telling of a meeting Satur- day of President Hoover and Sec- retaries Mellon and Stimson on thc (Continued on Page 10) $36,790,376 Gift to Family Not Subject to Taxation Washington, D. C., April 15 (#— The board of tax appeals, in a de sion handed down today, ruled tha property valued at $36,790,376 trans- ferred to members of his family by John Wanamaker, two years prior to his Jdeath in 1922 was not trans- fered in contemplation of death and therefore could not be assesscd for an estate tax. Committee to Inquire Into Status of Mellon Washingtoa, April 15 (®—The senate judicnary committee was summoned today by Chairman Nor- ris to meet Wednesday to consider the inquiry ordered previously into the right of Secrctary Mellon to continue in office, effect Washington dis- | LORD CUSHENDUN Orwat Dritain Florence Trumbull Leads D. A. R. Meeting Parade Washington, April 15 UP—A procession of pages led by Florence Trumbull, flancee of John Coolidge, and daughter of the governor of Connecticut, and Bina Denecn, daughter of | the Illinois senator, marked the opening of the congress of the Daughters of the American Rtevolution here today. The two will act as personal pages to Mrs. Alfred J. Brosscau, presi- dent-General, during the meet- ing. [FAKE ADVERTISERS CLEAN UP FORTUNES Federal Trade sioner Blames Patent Medicine Makers St. Louis, April 15 (@ — W, federal trade Humphrey, commis sioner, in an address today before | the annual meeting of the American ! zinc institute, declared that the peo- | ple of the country were being rob- bed of hundreds of millions of dol- | and mislead- appearing glaring in- class of ing advertisements in | newspapers and magaz “Some of the more imm annually by false advertise- | ment might he said “Those holding out alluring prom- | ises of lucrative employment; patent medicine advertisements for incur- {able diseases, frequently injurious {never of any value, and often by holding out false hopes prevent the vietim from secking any real relief !until too late. Various methods fo stances of this be cited,” | ‘r‘orr: cting bodily deformities; heau- ty ereams and various rejuvenating cosmetics—all of them frauds and ‘s\\‘mdlcs and perfaps the greatest of all just at the present mom»nt“ remedi machine are the various anti-fat appliances, soaps. belts, powder fakes and all of them dishonest— and some of them dangerous. Fabulous sums are spent for frauds since the female skele- as become the fashion in this | country. Hair restorers, one of the most intriguing and aged frauds 'Few men with bald pates seem to {be able to withstand the allurement {of this ancient and shameless fake Commissioner ~ Humphrey said | that following a conference last Oc- tober the majority of the publishers promised cooperation in eliminating this class of advertisements and that the results generally had been . ‘Some few a heir o- not keeping s he declared. “We are ing to force decency upon these few. We are going to clean their house for them.” Commis- | OE MARINIS raly 7P American Proposes Aviation Force To Maintain !nternational Peac Reading of Letter by Head | of Geneva Conference | Brings Objection From British Delegate. Geneva, Switzerland, April 15 () —The preparatory d commission held its openi |ings at Geneva today, | Loudon, in his introductor urging the | work. President Loudon- declared public opinion was becoming impatignt of | delay and rightly so. Pointing dra- ‘maumll) to a huge steel file 1n ck of him, he said he had receiv- ‘mam g me President | delegates to ea several thousand petitions urging | the quick progress of disarmament | and some of them demanding con- vocation of an international disarm- {ament conference in 1929, These petitions represented the | voice, not of thousands, but of mii- lions of people, chiefly workers, the president said, adding that reduction of armaments had been promised 1o all peoples and that the generations were giving more atte tion to the scttlement of disputes by conciliation and arbitration, He urged the delegates to take mip the Russian plan for partial disarm- ament and the German proposal for | publicity as well as the question of limitation of stocks of war material together with unsettled points in he draft convention whose second ading will shortly begin, lunsettled points, he explained, in- |cluded chemical warfare, air arma- ments, naval and air effectives, land armaments, naval armaments and (Continued on Page Four) SAVIN ROCK GAMBLING DENOUNCED BY WOMEN Church Societies T'orward Protest Against “Legalized” Gaming at W | West Haven Resort. and medicines; all of them | | New Haven, April 15 (P—A peti- tion signed by more than 400 men and women of this city protesting ainst what is termed “leg gambling” at Savin Rock wa to Senator Robert J. Smith, cf man of the Legislature committee on cities and horough last night by the Women's Church Union of New Ha- ven. The signers inc about 40 clergymen who represent 60 church- es and cight denomination resents a protest against the *d West Haven gambling law of which legalized gambling in favin Rock., The claim is made by the petitioners that this is the only town in the state, and Connecticut is the only state in the uniofi which ¥ gambling for profit and wherein the profit all goes to the rromoters, de s0- Airplane Lowered nta Ana, An airplane, at 5,000 feet fully lowered Calif.. April with its moetor cut off altitude, was suce to the ground by a released from the plane by a coil 2,800 pounds after a drop of 200 feet. Captain Roscoe Turner, Holly- wood stunt flyer, piloted the craft, a biplane. which was landed gently tin airport. where it had taken off. The parachute was 60 feet in di- | ameter and contained 600 squarc {in a field three miles from the Mar- | on Parachute From an Altitude of 5,000 Feet 15 ®P—| yards of silk. The test was believed to 1 | first successful one in aviation his- tory. parachute yestetrday. The parachute | * spring, took up the ship’s weight of | THE WEATHER New Britain and Probably showers to Tuexday. Not much | | in temperature. | % vicinity: and change young:2r| MclLea These ! It rep- | the | THOUSANDS HONOR HERRICK IN DEATH \Crowd Church and Streets at Funeral of Ambassador SIMPLE, BRIEF SERVICES rd of 1,000 Policemen and Fire- | ON PROGRAM Gu en Lincs Route to Cemetery— Few Flowers Sent at Request of Dead Envoy. Cleveland, O., April 15 (P—Ameri- ca bade a sade farewell today to its Cistinguished and beloved amba dor to France, Myron T. Herrick. With an impr ceremony in Trinity Episcopal cathedral, the finai which marked the close of the carthly carcer that led Mr. Herrick from Ohio farm boy to one of the highest spots of trust in his country’s service. Draped with flags of many nations, the chancel of the cathedral, with its tal] lighted candles, cast a sombre light upon the casket that stood at its front. Atop the unopened casket was a black satin pillow bearing the medal of the Legion of Honor, at the foot was a large silver palm. Both | decorations were expressions of trib- | ute from nce to the ambassador | (whom it looked upon as an adopted son. | The solemnity of the service was | | heightened by .ts simplicity Soldiers Carry Casket a half hour was By 1‘ for the services in the cath |Then the mourners filed slowly mn i [led by the bereaved relatives. Be- hind them marched pall bearers se- |lccted from the national guard and | |militia, bearing the casket on their | |shoulders | It was |the casket appeared Neverthele hundreds who were unable gain admis sion to the church, were waiting on both sides of Euclid avenue the procession started on its way to the grave i Lake View cemetery. sive rates were said, NICHOLAS LONGWORTH BRITAIN'S BUDGET NEAR FOUR BILLION | Chancellor Churchill Pments Estimates to House of Commons | EXPECTS NO LARGE CUTS Only aining lightly outside at the door. of people to | Reduction in to see Navy and Air Force Not Consid- ered, He Declares in Taking Slap (Continued on Page Four) at Lloyd George. London, April 15 (A—Winston | Churchill, chancellor of the exche- quer, presenting his fifth budget to the house of commons, today esti- mated the gmornmenl's expendi- WALCOTT AT FUNERAL | * OF MYRON T HERRI =" ‘Connecticut Senator Un- i 705.520,000.) There was no room for large cuts ame to Take Oath | in the social services said the chan- of Office cellor, while large cuts in arm- aments were dependent on interna- tional agreements which he feared would not be as easy to reach as all T could hope and even then were lim- ondent, MANNING N. B. Herald) Aol P cahas ,,(‘ safety vollhfiEUrinnh Isles and the unity of . |iad gone to Cleveland as ono of the | R R L S |representatives of the senate to flHrou,d not be made without Great tend the funeral of the late Britain falling below the one power | dor Myron Herrick, Senator Fred- | standard which he considered would C. Walcott, newly elected from | U° @ fatal position. : < " | dangering the Empire’s trade routes. Connecticut to succeed Geo: Nor could the air force development was not present to take the be safely held up. oath when the other members of the | He then proceeded to a defense |aznstecmaraavorin at the cONVEn- | o the return to the gold standard | ing of the extra session of congress|aq ofering lasting advantages, |today. 3 i : Revenue $3,769,700,000 | tor Walcott left here last| Rovenue for 1929-1930 was esti- | night for Cleveland accompanicd DY | piateq on the existing basis of ta Assistant Sccretary of State William 916,680 pounda eteriing | Castle, who is representing the state 00.000). Thia | az (" '\‘"‘""‘ G it " ]'_“r e give a prospective surplus of late American ambassador to France. | 11 26 60 pounds, or roughly $59 He is expected to return to Wash-| gab (o0 x shiy;ue ngton tomorrow morning and 10 h¢ | Lq to arrest in development sworn in tomorrow afternoon. o is i i G 3 Senator Walcott has been in ta i T = o e S o oli | 52id that _this could not ashington for the last two weeks| one ywithout placing the country preparing for the opening of lurgely at the mercy of that very special Congress sessio FLIER'S BODY FOUND i stantly accused of being subservient Washington, ambas- | ick of | Churchill | be safely and whom Mr. LI 4 George is never too busy to offend.” This was accepted by his hearers | {as a reference to France. Cheered By Ministers Dealing with the debt position, he said that England's obligations un- der existing debt contracts had been (Continued on Pagr‘ Missouri Guardsmen Locate Corpse of Licutenant Gray in Woods— hute Not Used, 15 (P—T ay of the air unit w in a ficld near P | st Louis. April of Li . Shapely souri National Gu found this mornir Gumbo, 20 miles west of here. The leutenant had imped from his | plane when its motor stalled while on a return trip from Jefferson | ICity 1ate yesterday. The flier's parachute was intact, strapped to his body, the cord still in his pocket, |indis had failed to pull the ‘KIIVL.' 10) SUlGlDE DOUBLE MURDER IN HOME AT BOSTON s on Nine found | Mother as dJets and with | | Kills Herself and Two iting h Daughters. Woods Full of Trout Fishermen—450 Licenses Today may be only the 15th of April to most people, but to 430 New Pritain persons, mostly men, it wis the opening of the trout season sroximately 450 fishing lice e issued at City hall last w ind practically every one of holders of thest licenses was this morning or was cxpected to be |out before the day was over. | The continued cold weather and swollen streams did not help to make conditions any pleasanter than usual. although it was report- ed that one man bagged the le |1imit before noon today in a Kr | sington hrook Other catches are expected to reported this evening when fishermen return home. April 15 (®—Mirs. 45, and her daughter and Rose, isphiyxiated their \partment Nine gas jets in the apartment were open. Police that a note left by the mother and writtea in Nebrew indicated that sh plann=d to take her life and that of her daughters because of cspondency. Anna So- in today said nses | we out Alderman Falk Is Out Against $42 City Payments Alderman Walter R. second word, said today he will ask the common council to refuse pay. ment of $42 cach to Registra Thomas J. Smith and William J. Ziecler for revising deputy registrars books for use on election day. “It has core to pretty pass fishing he the a ary for holding a job and then pay them again for doing the work tached to that job.” the declared. His only information in Springfield. Mass., April 15 (P— With conditions due mainly to recent weather anything but ideal. an armv | of fishermen took the field hegin- ning at dawn tos of the trout season. The water i reported old and brooks werbanks. which fact will 1 wwoach difficult, | charge had been made by each ree- and |istrar in each ward. the amount being $7 for cach district. and the cconnt labeled, books."” as high e in v casos ake ap + Appropriations for | ited by the absolute requirements of | Or without en- | 1k of the | whken the city must pay men a sal- | alderman | | the matter came during his perusal | - for the opening | of bills for election day expenses. A | “Deputy registrar's Average Daily Circulation Fer Week Endmg April 13th . 15,172 PRICE THREE CENTS FARM RELIEF AND TARIFF OF CONGRESS; SPECIAL SESSION BEGINS Many Republicans Re- place Democrats as Result of Hoover Landslide Last Fall— Longworth Speaker of . House. ‘Message From President | Hoover Due Tomorrow i —Visitors’ Galleries and i Corridors Crowded — | Eight Women Entitled to : Seats. l | Washington, April 15 U®— Rep. Nicholas J. Longworth of Ohio, was re-elected speaker of the House of Representatives today by a vote of 259 against 143 for Representative Garner of Texas, democrat. Washington, April 15 (P—Faced with the task of solving two funda- | mental American problems, a spe- cial session of the 71st congress met 1oday at the call of President Hoov- er to begin work on bills to aid :\gncullure and to revise the tariff l l! was a new congress but it was predominated by old faces and its | political makeup was much more strongly republican than that of the congress which went out of office on | March 4. The Hoover landslide of |last November had swept out of of- | fice many democrats and carried in |many republicans to take their places. | A farm relief bill was ready for house consideration when the noon | hour ushered in the session. Minus |the equalization fee of the McNary- ‘Hnunn bill which was so distaste. - |ful to the Coolidge administration, it would ecreate a farm board, with |a revolving fund of $500,000,000 to | handle the surplus questton. In « few deys a tariff bill will be ready for presentation. Houses to Organize Today's session was largely for |the purpese of organization. The senate, however, with Vice President Curtis already instalied as presiding officer, was ready for its legislative functions. The re-election of Nicho- |las Longworth as speaker of the | house was merely a routine matter. After this it was just a question of |calling the rolls; installing the | speaker and other officers; appoint- ing committees to notify the presi- |dent that congress was ready for business; swearing in new members, |udopting resolutions of regret at the (Continued on Pugc 10) GIIAST GUARD RAKES . MIAMI SHORE FRONT ,Flre at Rum Runners, En- \ dangering Lives of Citizens | Miami, Fla., April 15 (#—Coast guardsmen who last night pursued » fleeing rum craft up the Miami river and startied riverside residents with a machine gun fusillade faced a prospective inquiry today by Com- der R. L. Jack of the United ates coast guard base at Fort | Lauderdale. Under the fusillade of “tracer” bullets, several of which struck buildings ashore and a houseboat moored at the river's edge, the crew | of the liquor laden rum boat aban- doned the craft, which was cap- tured by the coast guardsmen and given in charge of United States customs officials. Several witnesses told stories of the dash up the river from the open bay. M Robert V. Latham was just retiring in her houseboat |two speeding craft swept by. A bul- |let from the machine gun mounted fon the prow of the government craft pierced the cabin of the house- {boat and embedded itself in a wall. A mortuary a block and a half from the river was struck by another bul- let, while a third struck a house on the river bank. None of the bullets fired. said to have been about 200, struck the liquor craft. H. C. Briswell, a bridge tender: Thomas Taylor, a policeman: George D. Baughman, a night watchman on |a tug. and J. Wilson, who sleeps in a small boat moored in the river, also told of witnessing the chase. A. P. Wollam and C. F. Cole told |of seeing the “tracer™ bhullets flam- ‘in( through the air from the win- dow of the Florida Power and Light company building, where they are | employed. Commander Jack of the coast guard at Fort Lauderdale announced he would investigate the shooting at a hearing today. He said if coast guardsmen were responsible “they be punished.” The coast guard officer sald he had learned authori. tatively that the govermment craft ‘wn a patrol boat from his base.